Post-pasech and knee opp

Passover went vell well in the end it was really nice to see my two bigger sisters and my nice and nephew. Later on the friday night we went to dinner with some cousins up in Manchester, most i hadn't met before so that was good, and interesting at least for family members I wont going into any details becuase it would be very boring for anyone who isn't a family member. I am still plodding along with working on and writting my thesis, as i have a deadline now i can just about force myself to work on it. I cant say i am enjoying it yet, but at least i am not hating it.
My knee opp went well and today i have offically been discharged. which is great.

Blessing the Sun

In the end I did mange to get up early enough to bless the sun, the service is a little odd but the blessing is fairly standard. Then collected all the Hamezts from last night and burnt it in the garden after declaring it to be null and volid asn as the dust of the Earth. Now thinking about the 1st night sader.

Blessing the sun; kosher for passover wine

Today I have perpared the service sheets for the blessing on the sun, which marks the return of the sun the position it was meant to have been in at creation. This is part of 28 year cycle so I won't get another opportunity to do it again until I am almost sixty (G-d willing). The service is quiet simple really a numer of Paslms and other readings from the Bible (most are, rather unsurprisingly sun related-and others really quite odd) in addition there are two text from the Bavli and of course the core blessing 'who does the work of creation'. I am intending to wake people up on Wednesday at dawn in order to perform the mitzvah.

Apart from that i have botteled the homemade kosher wine-a very sticky job.

passover cleaning

My knee is heeling nicely. I no longer have any dressings on it and I can move with more easy. But it has kept me from doing as much passover cleaning as i should have done. Apart from that I have been busy with my thesis; still transcribing interviews. Oh Joy.